Re-cap Of Boston Bikes Presentation
Written by Boston Biker on Feb 29Greg has an awesome recap of the 4th annual Boston Bikes report.
I, for one, am looking forward to Mayor Menino raising his right fist into the air as he welcomes tonight’s audience with a booming “The car is NO LONGER KING IN BOSTON!”
6:16pm: BostonBikeUpdate begins! in an almost full auditorium, Steve Miller of Livablestreets welcomes…NOT Mayor Menino, who “got a flat tire on the way to update and could no longer attend.
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By William Furr
on Feb 29, 2012 | Reply
I guess I’m just perpetually ungrateful. The interactions with motorists along my daily commute make it tough to be all “rah rah go Boston you’re the best”. I just want to ride my bike in peace, and that’s apparently too much to ask from my fellow “citizens”.
I’d like to see a *lot* more engineering, education, and enforcement come out of city hall.
Not to mention equity. For all their talk, the planned expansion of Hubway had a giant hole right around Dudley Square in Dorchester. I’m in awe of anyone who has the guts to cycle that urban car-centric hellscape. JP doesn’t really need Hubway. Folks here already have tons of bicycles. More is nice, but I would think other areas should come first.
I wish I could find that bike network map too, to see if Dorchester and Grove Hall were included at all.
By Michael Blackmore
on Feb 29, 2012 | Reply
“Mayor Menino raising his right fist into the air as he welcomes tonight’s audience with a booming “The car is NO LONGER KING IN BOSTON!””
You know if he’d actually came and said that I would have made sure to attend just to catch it (sadly I had to miss it.)
Of course, it may be better he didn’t make it (he was a less than amazing addition to the Urban Ag meeting a while back.)
Good recap though. It sounds like a mixed bag to me. Perhaps just become I wish the city was doing so much more!